Emma Allen interviews the cartoonist Maddie Dai about her process for drawing office dynamics.
—Emma Allen, New Yorker humor and cartoon editor Do you draw with your left or right hand? Right. What art do you have hanging on your studio walls/above your drawing desk? My desk sits in front of a window, which I use to peer into London flats and back yards around me.
My neighbors have a collection of headless mannequins in their garden, which is incredibly unnerving but useful for anatomy lessons. Do you snack while you draw? If so, on what? If I’m actually trying to work, I’ll drink coffee. If I’m using snacks as a means of procrastination, something elaborate, cheesy, and layered. Do you listen to music or podcasts while you draw? If so, specify. Religiously. Lately, lots of podcasts about ISIS brides. What object or setting do you absolutely hate drawing? There’s absolutely no animal I tackle with confidence. I’ll Google reference imagery for a worm. What’s your favorite New Yorker cartoon trope or cliché ? I don’t know if this is a trope per se or merely the backbone of society, but I like cartoons that involve middle-aged married couples in a quietly unfolding crisis that doesn’t require either of them to get up from their armchairs. If you could have dinner with one cartoonist, living or dead, tonight, who would it be? Charles Addams, preferably in his living form. What would you serve? An exciting modern innovation . . . Maybe Four Loko, since the worst-case scenario is that he has a great time re-dying. What was your favorite cartoon as a kid? “Footrot Flats,” a New Zealand strip about a farmer, Wal, and his dog, Dog, that seemed to exist in every Kiwi bathroom. I swear they came with the loo—you never purchased a book firsthand. I also loved “Tintin” and “Asterix.” What did you spend your first New Yorker cartoon sale check on? I made such an enthusiastic trip to IHOP that I got a call from my bank. If you had to get a tattoo right now, what would you get? Maybe my résumé, so that it doesn’t affect my employment prospects. Dogs or cats? Dogs, but if offered I’ll happily take both.
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